![]() Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Thursday announcement that he's changing his company's name to Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta for short, might be the biggest thing to happen to the metaverse since science fiction writer Neal Stephenson coined the term for his 1992 novel "Snow Crash." But Zuckerberg and his team are hardly the only tech visionaries with ideas on how the metaverse, which will employ a mix of virtual reality and other technologies, should take shape. The term "metaverse" is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry's imagination - so much so that one of the best-known internet platforms is rebranding to signal its embrace of the futuristic idea. The play will be performed in German and English, while Korean subtitles will be provided.Essentially, the metaverse is a world of endless, interconnected virtual communities where people can meet, work and play. ![]() The lines, music and sound effects have been pre-recorded, and the actor does not speak any lines with his real voice. The stage set is all designed by computer and a projector sends videos and images onto the stage ― transforming the bare set, while the actors "wear" the projections ― which helps produce the sense that audiences are viewing a virtual environment. One of the unique things about the play is that the director not only introduces the concept of the metaverse, but she also abundantly employs techniques that are not often used in plays. Kennedy added that she wanted to express big questions via this theatrical work, such as "Who are we?," "Where do we come from?," and "Where do we go?" while aiming to portray a person's journey of self-realization in a way that is not too dark. She added that after experiencing the death of one of her colleagues when she was younger, she realized that mortality is everyone's fate and that confronting death is more helpful than being passive about it. In that sense, Ultraworld is a reflection of our own struggles of mortality." He can only continue in the game when he accepts that. ![]() He basically learns that the people he loves die. We have to discover how to live this life. Stressing that the repetitive game setting is also reflected in Korea's megahit Netflix original series "Squid Game," she said, "Frank stands for everybody. Taking inspiration from by James Carse's book "Finite and Infinite Games," which sees life as a series of infinite and finite games, she sets up the story of Frank, the lead male character, who is placed as an avatar in a game world called "Ultraworld," where he struggles in this infinite game, so that audiences can also follow his journey of finding meaning in life. We have another tool to reflect back on our own reality," Kennedy told reporters on Wednesday. Theater is also a technology of simulation. The question of simulation: 'Do we live in a simulation?' 'Everything is an illusion.' Theater is also an illusion. "In many traditions, virtual reality is something that people thought about for a long time, like Plato's Allegory of the Cave. When the concept of metaverse started to spread recently, she focused on the similarity between the theatrical play and the metaverse, which are both types of "illusions," and decided to combine the two in "Ultraworld," which premiered in Germany in January 2020 and will be performed for the second time at the National Theater of Korea (NTOK), from Thursday to Saturday. German theater director Susanne Kennedy, whose work focuses on providing post-human, post-anthropocentric perspectives, has also been interested in this topic. A scene from "Ultraworld," directed by Susanne Kennedy / Courtesy of National Theater of KoreaĬan virtual reality replace the real world?" Many might think that this metaphysical question arose only with the introduction of new technologies in the 21st century, but actually, it has existed since ancient times, as in the Allegory of the Cave by Greek philosopher Plato. ![]()
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